Example sentences of "was [adv] [v-ing] from [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was constantly dashing from the shop floor to the offices , to his car , to his suppliers , to his customers and back again . |
| 2 | Joe played in every remaining Southern League match in that 1907–08 season and in our three FA Cup ties — and he was only missing from the Palace defence by reason of injuries during the next seven seasons . |
| 3 | ‘ After saluting him while he was eagerly drinking from the cup which had been presented , the dagger of an attendant pierced him through . ’ |
| 4 | This means that he did not consider that by taking the brahmacārya vow he was necessarily withdrawing from the life of society , which was one reason why he resented being called an ascetic . |
| 5 | Petty officer Dave Cockeram , who is in charge of the engines , said the crew averaging 50 men was easy going from the captain down , but definitely not laid back . |
| 6 | The black paint on the body was already peeling from the heat , though the Doctor guessed from the depth of the dust layer that it had n't been there more than a couple of days . |
| 7 | The Prime Minister was already reeling from a savaging inflicted in the Commons by Labour leader John Smith . |
| 8 | Brother Cadfael was just emerging from the door of the infirmary in mid-morning , after replenishing Brother Edmund 's stores in the medicine cupboard , when they rode in at the gatehouse before his eyes . |
| 9 | The Long Beach of those days was just emerging from the sleaze of being a naval base ; its downtown was full of porn-movie houses , run-down discount shops and ‘ boutiques ’ for the geriatric , who formed a large part of its population . |
| 10 | He was just turning from the sink , kettle in hand . |
| 11 | She was just walking from the building when she saw Paul Fisher . |
| 12 | She was still recovering from the shock of that earlier bout of jealousy . |
| 13 | The second shot , fired while the gun was still bucking from the recoil of the first , went wild . |
| 14 | The passageway outside was still reverberating from the crash when he started in on the door of the next apartment . |
| 15 | Her mother Mary Ann Elsworth , 77 , was still reeling from the shock . |
| 16 | The US was still reeling from the embarrassment of the Cuban Missile Crisis and needed to boost morale . |
| 17 | Quigley was still reeling from the impact of his great gesture . |
| 18 | Doncaster , however , absorbed cur-rent rumours and news from the court from them : Henry III , then in Paris , was still convalescing from an illness and was unlikely to move before Christmas . |
| 19 | An element was still missing from the equation of Tatyana 's suicide and Blanche was more convinced than ever that Taczek possessed it . |
| 20 | She was still grimacing from the shock of it as Guido swept from the room , announcing over his shoulder , ‘ So , you 'd better deliver the goods — or else I will ! ’ |
| 21 | Although it was light outside the tent , music was still blaring from a disco in the comer and Henry was dancing about the floor , ashen-faced and wide-eyed . |
| 22 | As he took his handkerchief out and wiped away the water that was still dripping from the front of his hair , a voice said , ‘ I would n't drink that if I were you ; the cows wash in it just round the corner . ’ |
| 23 | My lad said he was still suffering from the shock of seeing Gould 's leg in the iron . ’ |
| 24 | Edgar 's male chauvinism ( though this was a phrase not yet current ) and his expectation that his work was always , would always be of greater importance , than her own — these were aspects of their mutual dissatisfaction , no doubt , although both were , decades later , to concede that Edgar at this time was paying a high psychological price for having renounced his theatrical ambitions ( old Cambridge friends of his already had their names in lights in the West End , while he was a mere house officer ) and that Liz was still suffering from the trauma of confronting her mother with her total , final defection . |
| 25 | By the end of June , observers on the mainland of Sumatra reported that all the higher parts of Perboewetan had been blown away , and that a second eruption column was now rising from the centre of the island . |
| 26 | Moreover , Britain was increasingly shifting from a manufacturing economy to a service-based economy where quite different and , often , more sophisticated social skills are demanded of employees . |
| 27 | Why plastic , I shall never know , for the skin , which was sometimes hanging from the face , was so like normal human skin . |
| 28 | ‘ With repossessions taking place at around 100 a day , it seemed like proper advice was sadly lacking from the range of services available to homeowners . |
| 29 | But there can be no real doubt that it was on medical advice that Law resigned , for he was advised that only a complete break would save him from total breakdown , and he was actually suffering from the disease that was to kill him in less than three years . |